The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.

For us it's not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don't accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.

Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... One person of integrity, can make a difference, a difference of life and death. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.

In Jewish tradition the Talmud is said to have been given on Sinai.

Tibet's a tragedy. It's an insult to human decency.

I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?